Top 20 Aquaculture Patent Holders

I conducted a search to identify the organisations most active in seeking patent protection for aquaculture innovations.

My preliminary search used the key words ‘aquaculture’ and ‘fish farm’ to identify relevant documents from a number of data sets including US, Japan, Germany, EU and the World Intelllectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and INPADOC.

The search produced just over three and a half thousand patent documents out of a total data set of over 50 million.

The organisations with the most active patent portfolios are as follows:

NUTRECO AQUACULTURE RESEARCH    77
NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE    30
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE     24
MARTEK BIOSCIENCES CORPORATION     19
SEABAIT LIMITED     17
WYETH     16
NORSK HYDRO    14
OMEGATECH    14
VELCRO INDUSTRIES    14
AQUACULTURE CRC    13
HENKEL KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT AUF AKTIEN     13
ASCOM NEXION    12
FISHFARM TECH    12
DSM IP ASSETS    11
MARICAL    11
OMS INVESTMENTS    11
BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM     10

The patent count that I have produced here is raw data on the number of patents across a number of jurisdictions.  As such it represents a measure of the investment that organisations are dedicating to intellectual property protection rather than a count of the number of individual inventions.

The data generated here is supplied by Thomson Scientific using their patent data analytics suite. In this instance the Delphion product was used to generate the data.

Tags: EU, germany, INPADOC, japan, patent, US, WIPO
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